Could you try to use -e linux for the ktrace? E.g. ktrace -i -e
linux 'progname'. It seems ktrace is misidentifying the ktrace
as being for NetBSD binary (hence the strange syscall names).

Nick Hudson wrote:
> > Which system call? Could you please send (last lines of) ktrace dump?
> > Latest kernel == which? 1.5 series, or -current?
> 
> A ktrace of the one of the installation processes gives the following
> (in attachment)...
> 
> I tried a -current kernel and it locked the machine solid at a similar
> point to the core dump with 1.5.

Oops ... I'm definitely interested in this.

Jaromir
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